I’m not sure if they were gleefully ready, but I live in McLennan County (Waco) - pretty Baptist and pretty conservative - and our county issued 10 marriage licenses to same sex couples yesterday - out of a total of 26 total issued.

Legitimate question - why do you have to pick a color to make the point? Why can’t you just say that you do in fact see color and race but you respect them all so essentially it doesn’t matter which one because they all matter equally?

I had a boyfriend once who not only said Reese’s wrong he used to say Col. SAUnders - when speaking of the KFC guy. It made me crazy. I had to leave him. Mostly because he had a drinking problem and would do things like go to an Indian casino and win $100 and think he was on some sort of roll and immediately hop a…

The bottom line is that the safest place for a child under 2 is not on an adult’s lap. It is in their own seat, strapped in a car seat. The FAA knows this and the only reason they don’t mandate it is because of the fear that if parents have to pay for a seat for their child, people will opt to drive instead and that’s…

Where I live, a woman who had an in home daycare who was nicknamed “The Nap Nazi” was just sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing an infant in her care with an overdose of Benadryl. Turns out her method of enforcing strict sleep schedules was by using Benadryl.

I lived in Austin for 8 years and just moved a year ago to a smaller, more redneck Texas city so I miss Austin. But yeah, it’s not paradise and so true about the bike friendliness, in the time that I lived there I knew 3 people who were hit by cars and I witnessed probably 5 or more car/bike accidents.

Who loves dry cleaning THAT much? I once knew a family who had money (turns out from fraud but whatevs) and they had an employee whose only job was to do all their ironing. I could get on board with that. I love ironed sheets. Not enough to fuck that guy though.

Well now it’s becoming pretty clear how Ben came to be the big dullard that he is.

Except that they were born in the US, are US citizens and primarily resided in the US until their father’s visa was revoked reportedly due to illegal activity. So their lives should be uprooted to live in a country where they are not even citizens and an already agreed upon custody arrangement invalidated because he…

Except that Tylenol’s liver toxicity can be reached pretty easily inadvertently, just taking twice the recommended dosage can be fatal whereas with ibuprofen a toxic dose would be around 150 tablets for an average sized man.

If his judgment wasn’t mature then why does Arkansas allow for cases to be transferred to criminal court at the minimum age of 14?

Or feed a baby when they are naked. Breast fed baby shit literally comes shooting out those cute little butts.

I’ve always thought that Jana seemed like a lost soul - not saying that in a religious connotation at all, she just has an air of sadness so this totally makes sense. And Jessa does seem bitchy and cold so I found it curious that she ended up with Ben because he’s a moron, she doesn’t seem like she’d stand for that.…

I understand intellectually how someone can be pregnant and not know it but as someone who has had two children and was as big as a house - like around month 6 there was no question I was pregnant such that every single stranger I encountered mentioned it - I don’t get it. Or rather, I hate these women because I had…

That’s better than what Rick Perry did. Approved a renovation of the governor’s mansion that ended up costing $25 million and rented a house for $700,000 while the renovation was going on. While he cut spending on education and Medicaid by $8 billion.

My Charlotte just turned 1 and the name is very regional. We liked the name Charlotte so I checked the top baby names in our state (TX), Genesis and Ximena are higher on the list than Charlotte. I have a 7 year old and we’ve never run into a Charlotte in school or activities so I figured, it’s just not that big here.…

So why exactly would a pre-nuptial agreement be relevant if they weren’t married?

I wasn’t directing any anger at you, it’s definitely a valid point that she may have a health condition that would make a surrogate a better choice for her. I just think it shouldn’t matter. Even if her reason was “I don’t want to be pregnant and fat” - that’s valid too.

As someone who dealt with infertility for years and ended up with a child via donor eggs, I say it’s irrelevant why someone makes the choice. We all get to make the reproductive choices that are best for us and build our families however we want and everyone else can shut the fuck up about it. Go make a family however…

I pretty much did get my body back (except for the tiny pooch above my c-section scar) with my first child after 12 weeks, 8 years ago. Baby # 2 just turned 1 and I literally just hit my pre-pregnancy weight last week. And that pooch is bigger and here to stay. I’m cool with my body but the post-partum period where…